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A short history of the London Workers Group, which existed from 1977 to 1985, written by Dave Morris, a former member, in 2006.

Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/20948 Yevgeni Preobrazhensky: ABC and NEP Submitted by Matthew on 15 May, 2013 - 7:24 Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1886-1937), was a Bolshevik, economist, and one-time member of the Trotskyist Left Opposition against Stalin. From 1904, Preobrazhensky sided with the Bolshevik faction in the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, becoming a member of its Ural provincial bureau of the Party. During 1917, he was a delegate of the Chita Soviet in south-east Russia, and became a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Russian Comm...

1921 turning point? Mike Macnair spoke to Online Communist Forum on March 7 about the related centenaries of the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion, the adoption of the NEP and the ban on factions in the Russian Communist Party This talk was titled ‘NEP, the banning of factions and Kronstadt - the turning point in the Russian Revolution?’ I began by emphasising the question mark, and giving the preliminary answer to the question: ‘No’. But we have to start with the centenary. By spring 1921, it looked as though the civil war was won, while the war with Poland was over for practical purposes. I...